Autism and the Edges of the Known World Format:Trade Paperback Group homes are the dominant

Group homes are the dominant form of residential accommodation for people with severe learning or intellectual disabilities

and examines our ambivalent relationship to it

Dancing with Dementia is a thoughtful exploration of how dementia challenges our ideas of personal identity and of the process of self-discovery it can bring about

believing that wishing that someone were dead can actually cause death

Autism and the Edges of the Known World Format:Trade Paperback Group homes are the dominantIn this intelligent and incisive book, Olga Bogdashina explores old and new theories of sensory perception and communication in autism. Drawing on linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology and quantum mechanics, she looks at how the nature of the senses inform an individual's view of the world, and how language both reflects and constructs that view. Examining the 'whys' and 'hows' of the senses, and the role of language, Olga